Who Wants to Become a Teacher in Tanzania? Profiles of Student-Teachers' Commitment to Teaching

• In Event: 53.082 - Poster Session 10
  In Poster Session: 53.082-6 - Culture and Context: Opportunity and Change

Abstract

Understanding student teachers’ levels of commitment to enter and stay in teaching after graduation could help teacher educators to find appropriate procedures to enhance commitment. This study profiled student teachers based on their level of commitment to teaching and relate these profiles to student teachers’ motivation to enter teaching and their perceptions of environmental determinants impacting their teaching career. We interviewed 37 undergraduate student teachers from the Dar es salaam University College of Education in Tanzania. We identified four student teacher profiles from our results: 1) committed passionate, 2) committed compromisers, 3) undecided and 4) uncommitted. Implications include the importance of designing teacher education curriculum in a way that caters for the needs of student teachers in all profiles.

Authors

• Ikupa Moses, ICLON-Leiden University

• Amanda K. Berry, Monash University

• Nadira Saab, Leiden University

• Wilfried Admiraal, Leiden University